Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-13

y n MINERS.

\ vein OF coal nNe feet thlck Is reported
from Thomas, Kansas.
The coal trade is very dull around the
Lasalle, ILL.,, district at present. Most of
the mines are not working over half time.
Miners are advised TO steer clear of
Gallup, New Mexico. Two mines at that
Miners are warned tOstay away from the
Kanawha, W. Va, mines. The men have
not been paid for a long time.
The Mount Carmel shaft cOlliery has re-
sumed work after an iilencSS OF nine
months.
The Falls Creek Mines, at Barclay, Pa,
have resumed operations ut % and ~ cents
per ton.
There were nine fatal accidents in the
northern anthracite coal fields during
February.
All the collieries in the Wyoming and
Lackawanna valleys, of Pennsylvania, have
resumed work full time.
The price of mining at Richmond, Mo-,
has been fixed foC the spring and summer
at &c per bushel.
Most of the mines in the vicinity OF
Connellsyille, Pa, have been running
double turn.
There is much rejoicing in the Maryland
coal regions over the advance in prices for
mining coal.
The Hoffman and National mines, at
Vale Summit, Nd, are running steadily
with good prospects.
A new coal mine has been opened on
Ten Mine, OF Cabin Creek, w. Va. 1t is a
six foot vein and is said to be II Of
superior quality.
The decision of the umpire, John Jar
rett, in the case of the drivers W. the
Peters Greek Coal Co, WAS in favor of the
drivers.
John Yochmau, the Hungarian organizer
tor the Miners Association in the coke
regions, has succeeded in organizing q
beneficial association among his country
men with over one thousand members.
The Romans discovered coal in exca-
waiting aqueductS in France. Ii il said to
have been used in England before the
Roman invasion. The first notice of the
use of cOll in England vas in $50, when it
was referred to in an account a fossil fuel.
The new cooperative enterprise known
~ the Hawkeye Coal Mine Company has
leased 800 acres of the most valuable
coal lands in Iowa 1t is situated on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul branch
railroad, running from Cedar Rapids to
Kansas City.
Kansas has never been regarded rs q
great coal state, vet her coal area il eStl-
mated to be larger thln the entire state Of
New Hampshire or the states of Rhode
Island, Delaware and Connecticut com.
biued. At present il covers 1915 square
miles, with perhaps a third of the state to
hear irOm.-SurGrdS Journal.
Anew coal and coke company has begun
operations ut Bolivar, Pa, and ope mine
has been opened. One hundred coke ovens
are expected to be built in the early part
If summer, aud work will be commenced
on $50 more. 1t is the intention 10 develop
the works rs much as possible. Before the
year closes il is probable that the capital
stock will be considerably increased.
At Lexington, Mo-, by the agreement
between the miners and the Lexington
Coal Mining Co, entered into two years
ago and under which there have been no
disputes or diSSenSiOns, both sides fully
standing by their contract, the summer
scale OF paw goes into effect ON the first of
March and continues in force six months,
when the winter scale under which the
men are ut present working will again
prevail. For the six months ending March
lst the company has paid its miners 81 per
ton, when the company took away the
coal. When the miner kept the coal ont
of his way he received 124c additional per
ton. The summer scale will reduce the
price by either plan rs paid to the miners
l2lc per tOn.-SGrdTdS Journal.
Three hundred men and boys are on
strike &C Milnesville, Pa. The minors for
a number of years have been allowed 10
yards in opening breasts. According TO
the new terms of the operators the miners
were to open the breasts and when they
rot their batteries in they were not allowed
any further yardage. The men say that
according to the new terms they are re-
quired to do a great deal more work than
formerly and vet they receive less wages,
so that their wages have practically been
very materially reduced. All the Hun
g~arians employed at the stripping are also
on strike. They want their wages increased
to 81 IS per day for loading coal, the same
~ is paid at the stripping of C. Pardee y
Co, at Hollywood.
The department of the large ore tract in
Centre county, neal Bellefonte, Pa, has
begun with considerable activity, and its
product is shipped in large quantities to
Elmira, Pittsburg and to all points on the
main line Of the Pennsylvania railroad and
its branches. The ores are free working,
aud will run 80 per cent of iron to the ton.
The beds in many places have been ex-
ploded % feet in depth, and the bottom
has not been found. Plants for handling
the ore have beeh built. A rolling mill
and q pudding and heating furnace have